“Pets provide company for the lonely, are models of compassion and create indelible
bonds with their human companions. They love to play, eat, be noticed and explore. They are most grateful for the smallest of gestures and acts of kindness. Like us, they get bored, feel pain and suffer loss. As parents, they care deeply for their offspring, nurturing them, watching over them and smothering them with love and affection. They live for neither the past nor future but concentrate on the present, something we humans could productively replicate in our lives. To many, they are God’s greatest gift.”
Animal Crackers – Irish Pet Stories
“The shrieking, piercing cacophony of young girls’ voices produced a resonance 
so loud and high-pitched that the fans couldn’t hear themselves screaming and the Beatles couldn’t hear their own voices speaking. The noise was the equivalent of a jet engine, registering well over 100 decibels of shrill, sharp, ear-splitting, nerve-jangling sound. It could seriously damage eardrums. Only dogs could pick up some of the frequencies. Hysteria was at breaking point. The Adelphi stage had metamorphosed into a mélange of colour and sound.”
The Beatles Irish Concerts